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It doesn't sound like something a leftist would say at least but idk

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why not tho

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lol

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"Capitalism - anybody can be rich"

Oh shit forreal?
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Evening_Dragon posted...

why not tho

I don't think that any of those descriptions reflect generally held opinions of any group, but I think it's especially poor if it's trying to reflect leftist sentiment in particular. It makes capitalism seem better than communism

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anybody can be rich but no one should be poor is just print more money in a different picture frame. the existence of an upper class requires a lower class

sounds like bs to me

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I think your perception of what liberals believe is perhaps painted by what conservatives keep saying liberals believe.

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Evening_Dragon posted...

I think your perception of what liberals believe is perhaps painted by what conservatives keep saying liberals believe.

Are you conflating leftist and liberal?

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Sounds more like social democracy (which I realize is a form of capitalism)

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Bananana posted...

anybody can be rich but no one should be poor is just print more money in a different picture frame. the existence of an upper class requires a lower class

sounds like bs to me

Obviously it's a reductive statement. What it means by people not being poor is that people have their basic needs met.

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Liberalism is a hell of a drug

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Obviously it's a reductive statement. What it means by people not being poor is that people have their basic needs met.

sure, and i would also argue that no one should be rich

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Under genuine, non-authoritarian communism the only thing stopping you from living the equivalent of an American upper-middle class lifestyle is your own willingless to work for and build up to those niceties.

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ldk

Lotta self proclaimed socialists on CE that spend a lot more energy talking about making sure no one is rich than they do making sure no one is poor
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San Francisco is a pretty far left area and they seem to support having lots of poor people around.

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Th3Truth posted...

Or the state deciding all the people who've gotten themselves addicted to drugs, video games, or too lazy to work needs that money more than you.

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CommonJoe posted...

non-authoritarian communism

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How can a gov't that owns all basic businesses not be authoritarian?

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g980 posted...

ldk

Lotta self proclaimed socialists on CE that spend a lot more energy talking about making sure no one is rich than they do making sure no one is poor

Have you considered the possibility that the reason for that is that because people grow rich by exploiting people who work for a living? If someone like Bezos or the Walton family were willing to pay a middle class wage to their employees, they woild still be wealthier than those employees will ever be. Instead they choose to be disgustingly wealthy and in so doing keep the workers who actually do the labor in poverty.

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